The two most common answers to a team's tracking question, and they come from opposite ends of the design spectrum.
TL;DR
ClickUp is one workspace that absorbs docs, dashboards, goals, chat and tasks, starting free with unlimited tasks and charging $7 per user monthly billed yearly for Unlimited and $12 for Business. Jira is a work-tracking system with deep planning, charging per user with rates that move by seat count: $7.91 for Standard and $14.54 for Premium on the calculator's default example. Buy ClickUp when the tool has to hold every kind of work; buy Jira when the work is software delivery and the process has to survive an audit.
ClickUp's pricing page opens on a free plan that is genuinely usable:60MB of storage, unlimited tasks, unlimited members, collaborative docs, Kanban boards, sprint management, a calendar view, basic custom fields and one form, all at $0 forever. Beyond that, Unlimited is $7 per user per month billed yearly ($10 paid monthly) and unlocks unlimited storage, unlimited Gantt charts, unlimited integrations, unlimited custom fields and goals. Business is $12 yearly ($19 monthly) and adds unlimited dashboards with advanced cards, unlimited timeline views, webhooks, automation integrations and 5,000 automations a month. Enterprise is quoted through sales and lifts that to 250,000 automations a month with SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, session management and HIPAA compliance. AI is sold on top: Brain AI at $9 per user per month, Everything AI at $28, and Super Credits at $10 per 10,000 credits, or $0.001 each.
Jira prices four tiers through a calculator rather than a fixed card. Free is $0 for up to 10 users with 2GB of storage and 150 automation steps a subscription a month. Standard shows at $7.91 per user per month on the page's default example, with 400 automation steps per user per month,250GB of storage and 9/5 regional support; Premium shows at $14.54 with 750 automation steps per user, approval processes and cross-team planning. Atlassian's own documentation notes that these figures move with seat count, listing $9.05 for Standard and $18.30 for Premium per user on monthly billing for teams of 1-100. Enterprise is annual only, quoted through sales, with 1,000 automation steps per user and Atlassian Guard for identity. Paid plans also carry Rovo credits:25 per user on Standard,70 on Premium,150 on Enterprise.
| Feature | ClickUp | Jira |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free Forever: $0,60MB storage, unlimited tasks and members, docs, Kanban, one form | Free: $0 for up to 10 users,2GB storage,150 automation steps a month |
| Entry paid plan | Unlimited: $7 per user/month billed yearly, $10 paid monthly | Standard: $7.91 per user/month as shown, $9.05 per user for teams of 1-100 on monthly billing |
| Mid tier | Business: $12 per user/month billed yearly, $19 paid monthly,5,000 automations a month | Premium: $14.54 per user/month as shown, $18.30 for teams of 1-100 on monthly billing |
| Enterprise | Quoted through sales:250K automations a month, SAML SSO, SCIM, audit log, HIPAA | Annual contract through sales, with Atlassian Guard and 1,000 automation steps per user |
| AI pricing | Brain AI $9 per user/month, Everything AI $28, Super Credits $10 per 10,000 | Rovo credits bundled per plan:25 per user on Standard,70 on Premium,150 on Enterprise |
| Automation | 5,000 automations a month at Business,250,000 at Enterprise | Automation steps pooled per user:150, 400, 750, 1,000 across the four tiers |
| Work structure | Spaces, folders and lists with unlimited views on paid plans | Projects, issues, boards, backlogs and timelines with dependencies |
| Platform | Web, desktop, iOS and Android, integrations unlimited from Unlimited upward | Web, iOS and Android, plus apps from the Atlassian Marketplace |
| Offline mode | Not covered on clickup.com/pricing | Not covered on Atlassian's Jira pricing page |
| Billing note | Yearly billing advertised at up to 30% below monthly | Annual billing charged by seat tier, advertised at up to 17% below monthly |
Pick ClickUp if
Teams that want docs, dashboards, goals, whiteboards and chat next to their tasks, without paying for four products, land here at $7 per user per month billed yearly. The free plan with unlimited tasks and unlimited members makes it the low-risk trial of the two, and the automation caps are published numbers rather than metered credits.
Pick Jira if
Software teams shipping on a release cadence get sprint tooling, dependencies, approvals and permission schemes that were designed for that job, at $7.91 per user per month on the page's example. Budget knowing the rate moves with seat count and that automation runs on an allowance rather than a flat quota.
We did not gather independent reviews for this pairing: every figure comes from clickup.com and Atlassian's Jira pricing pages, and the cards hold only claims the vendors publish themselves.
At entry level they land in the same place: ClickUp Unlimited is $7 per user per month billed yearly and Jira Standard shows at $7.91 per user on the page's calculator example. The gap opens in the middle, where ClickUp Business is $12 and Jira Premium shows $14.54, and on AI, where ClickUp charges $9 to $28 per user for its AI tiers while Jira bundles Rovo credits into the plan.
ClickUp covers sprints, burndown-adjacent reporting, custom fields and automation, and many teams run engineering work there. Jira keeps the edge on release planning, dependency management across teams, granular permission schemes and Marketplace apps built around software delivery.
Not comfortably. Jira tracks work items very well, but documents, dashboards for non-engineering work, goals and whiteboards are either separate Atlassian products or thinner features, whereas ClickUp ships them inside the same subscription.
ClickUp's free plan allows unlimited tasks and unlimited members with 60MB of storage and one form. Jira's free plan allows up to 10 users with 2GB of storage and 150 automation steps a month. For a team larger than ten, ClickUp's free tier is the only one that scales without a card.
ClickUp sells AI as add-ons: Brain AI at $9 per user per month, Everything AI at $28, and Super Credits at $10 per 10,000. Jira includes Rovo credit allowances with each paid tier,25 per user on Standard,70 on Premium and 150 on Enterprise, and marks higher allowances as an upsell.
ClickUp asks for workspace structure up front: spaces, folders, statuses and views are yours to shape, and the free plan starts with a single form and limited storage. Jira asks for project schemes: workflows, permission schemes and issue types, which is more ceremony but scales cleanly once an administrator owns it.
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